[Sugar-devel] Testing Rotate in sugar-jhbuild

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Walter,
>
>
> On 16 Aug 2012, at 16:53, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
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> In anybody want test how activities work with the screen rotated in
>
> sugar-jhbuid,
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> can do in the terminal:
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> xrandr -o left
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> when your neck hurts, or you have finished...
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>
> xrandr -o normal
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>
> Gonzalo
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> Works great. Check out
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/c/cb/Portfolio-27.xo which support
> rotation. But I am curious why the stop button runs off the edge... it
> would appear there is plenty of room for it.
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>
> Not sure if this is your issue (my land line has been down most of the day
> and am on GSM network), but invisible separators still take space unless you
> explicitly tell them not to:
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>     separator.set_size_request(0, -1)
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> So your separator factory might need a tweak. See Physics activity.py line
> 103 for a working example.
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> Regards,
> --Gary
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> -walter
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I've been thinking for quite some time that we need a new approach to
the problem of toolbar items following off the end of the toolbar This
problem will be greatly exacerbated by the more frequent use of screen
rotate one would expect with more use of tablet mode on XO 4.0 Touch.
Most activities have not taken into account the potential squeezing of
the toolbar by 25% even of they take into consideration general
resizing of the screen due to rotation.

A simple solution would be to double the vertical size of the toolbar
and wrap the icons onto a second row.

comments?

-walter
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Walter Bender
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